Optic had some free time from his usual schedule of spanking to pr0n to submit an absurd amount of demos.

• Easy 100% of trr in 1:58, 10 seconds faster than his old time.
  
• Nightmare 100% of trr in 1:57, improving Matt's run by 18 seconds.
  
• Easy 100% of hunter in 2:27, improving Matt's demo by 19 seconds.
  
• Nightmare 100% of hunter in 2:52, improving Matt's demo by 17 seconds.
  
• Easy 100% of networld in 1:36, improving Marlo's time by 5 seconds.
  
• Easy 100% of pb1 in 1:59, improving Marlo's time by 15 seconds.
  
• Nightmare 100% of pb1 in 2:37, improving Marlo's time by 33 seconds (owned).
  
• Nightmare 100% of r1m1 in 3:17, improving Syntaxerror's time by 32 seconds.
  
• Easy run of tohnsay in 1:34, improving his old time by 7 seconds.
  
• Nightmare run of tohnsay in 1:41, improving Esa's time by 22 seconds.
  
• Easy run of houstrps in 0:35, improving Marlo's time by 3 seconds.
  
• Easy 100% of houstrps in 1:16, improving Marlo's time by 9 seconds.
  

Peter Stubgaard has done a few demos in the last couple days to.

• Nightmare 100% of fiffy3 in 2:33, 5 seconds faster than his previous time.
  
• Easy 100% of fiffy3 in 2:34, 2 seconds faster than his previous time.
  
• Nightmare run of Black2 in 1:09, 1 second faster than Justin's demo (good demo).
  
• Nightmare 100% of Black2 in 2:07, 7 seconds faster than Marlo's previous time.
  
• Nightmare 100% of Black3 in 2:21, 21 seconds faster than Marlo's previous time.
  

Thomas Stubgaard did a Nightmare 100% of E2M4 in 2:31, 9 seconds faster than his previous time.

Thomas Bergendorff did a Nightmare 100% of alpha001 in 1:05, three seconds faster than Optic.

I improved Justin's time of H2M4 by 2 seconds to get 0:39.

Justin and Nolan pimped up an Easy 100% of R1M2 to get a solid time of 1:48.

Also, there are some cool new demos for you to watch at the Quake done Naked page.

Single player demos

• Martin Selinus managed to pull off the curly slope jump in alpha001 on easy skill, getting a 0:10, 40 seconds faster than Optic.
• Jozsef improved Ilkka's easy run of desout by seven seconds to get 0:31; he added an enforcer boost at the end to skip a button.
• Optic improved Mr shambler's easy run of dm1m2 by seven seconds to get 0:54.
• Optic couldn't let Kip have that easy run of gordian, so he improved kip's demo by six seconds to get 1:30.
• Jozsef improved Daniel's easy run of Bridge to Fire by two seconds to get 0:25.
• Marlo Galinski improved Optic's easy 100% of alpha001 by four seconds to get 0:57.
• Optic improved Stefan Schwoon's easy 100% of tspe by seven seconds to get 1:12.
• Jozsef managed to further improve the nightmare run of alpha001 somehow, and got an 0:08.
• Optic improved Matthias Belz's nightmare run of badland2 by eight seconds to get 2:43.
• Esa Lähteenmäki filled the hole for the nightmare run of desout, getting a time of 0:41.
• A few days later however, Jozsef improved it and got a 0:30, faster than his run on easy skill.
• Optic ran dm1m2 on nightmare in 1:29.
• Robert Axelsson improved Stefan's nightmare run of doome1m7 by two seconds to get 0:45.
• Optic improved his own nightmare run of gordian by 21 seconds to get 2:00.
• Daniel Magnusson improved Jesse van Dijk's nightmare run of The Guardhouse by one second to get 0:36.
• He also managed to improve an id-level oldie... the nightmare 100% of e1m1; he beat Patrick's demo by one second to get 1:12.
• Martin improved Marlo's nightmare 100% of e3m1 by four seconds to get 1:39 -- his first nightmare 100% demo too.
• Somebody improved Optic's nightmare 100% of r1m1 by two seconds to get 3:49. He didn't reveal his name... just his alias of "Syntaxerror".
• Richard Skidmore improved one of Matthias Belz's table filling demos; the nightmare 100% of empire, by 30 seconds to get 3:43.
• Sergi Cami took the nightmare run through the jzblue episode just one week after he did it on easy. He improved Robert's previous demo by four seconds to get 0:47.

Coop Demos

• Optic and Evan did an easy 100% of alpha001 in 0:28. (0:57)
• They also did a nightmare 100% of alpha001 in 0:39. (1:09)
• Evan and Nolan did an easy 100% of black1 in 1:51. (2:43)
• Cameron Engles and Evan did an easy run of hip2m4 in 0:33. (0:41)
• They also did a easy run of The Elektra Complex in 0:13. (0:14)
• And they did an easy 100% of elektra in 0:46. (1:04)
• Finally, they did an easy 100% marathon of episode 2 in 8:43. (12:59)
• Simon and Daniel did an easy 100% of e2m1, first in 0:51, but then getting 0:50 on the next day.
• Robert and Alex did an easy run of doome1m7 in 0:34. (0:43)
• Optic and I finished up all the easy 100% of hipnotic levels, and then kept doing lots of other stuff:
  • Easy 100% of hip3m1 in 1:04. (1:40)
  • Later when we worked on the whole hip3 episode, we got a 1:01.
  • Easy 100% of hip3m2 in 1:33. (1:55)
  • Easy 100% of hip3m4 in 1:30. (2:09)
  • We got the hip3 marathon easy 100% I mentioned, in a nice time of 5:37. (8:52)
  • Nightmare 100% of hip1m1 in 0:58 (1:28).
  • Easy 100% of hip2m1 in 1:19, six seconds faster than our previous.
  • Easy 100% of r1m1 in 1:43. (2:24)
  • Easy 100% of rdend in 2:07. (3:00)
  • Easy 100% of jzblue2 in 0:11. (0:17)
  • Easy 100% of dm1m2 in 1:00. (1:39)

Here's your weekly dose of a large amount of demos:

• Markus improved his nightmare run of e3m6 by one second to get 0:29. First id-level run improvement in a while.
• Thomas Stubgaard improved his easy 100% of e4m8 by five seconds to get 3:51.
• He improved the nightmare 100% of e4m8 too, by exactly one minute, to get 5:26.
• He improved his NH of e4m6 by 23 seconds to get 2:57 as well.
• Carl Tholin improved Peter's easy run of ikspq4 by two seconds to get 1:01.
• I improved my zer1m7 easy run by 15 seconds to get 2:34.
• I went crazy and did a marathon run through the Zerstörer episode. I got a very nice 12:32.
• Optic did all of these:
  • Easy run of alpha001 in 0:50; much slower than on nightmare, because the trick is most likely not possible on easy.
  • Easy 100% of alpha001 in 1:01.
  • Nightmare 100% of alpha001 in 1:09.
  • EH of a2d2 in 1:51, six seconds faster than Stefan.
  • NH of a2d2 in 3:23, 1:02 faster than Esa.
  • EH of a3 in 3:08, 32 seconds faster than me.
  • NH of a3 in 3:15, 38 seconds faster than Matthias.
  • EH of dm1m2 in 1:39.
  • NH of dm1m2 in 2:58.
  • Nightmare run of EvilWorld in 0:37.
  • Nightmare run of Harm's way - the long way, in 2:26, 24 seconds faster than Esa.
  • Easy run of Hell's Castle in 1:21, improving Chris Longden's record by one second.
• Stefan ran doome1m7 on easy in 0:43, and on nightmare in 0:47.
• Stefan also ran mexx9c on nightmare in 2:30, 1:16 faster than Matthias.
• Kip improved Optic's easy run of gordian by one second to get 1:36.
• Marlo did a demo for a change; an easy 100% of mcm01 in 1:43.
• Thomas Bergendorff improved Evan's easy run of mcm01 by six seconds to get 0:40, but then Evan improved that by six seconds to get a nice 0:34.
• Thomas also ran mcm01 on nightmare in 0:40. :)
• Qurre managed to get 0:09 for the nightmare run of alpha001, one second faster than Ilkka.
• Ken improved his NR of climb by two seconds to get 0:25.
• Sergi improved Jozsef's nightmare run of phallusy by one second to get 0:30.
• Sergi also improved Jozsef's easy run through jzblue by four seconds, to get 0:43.
• And now for the COOPS!
  • Optic and Evan did an easy 100% of e3m7 in 1:14, only 13 seconds slower than the 4 player one.
  • They also improved the previous easy run on mexx9a by seven seconds to get 0:48.
  • And they did an easy 100% of ikspq5 in 1:13.
  • Evan and I improved our easy 100% of e4m6 by 11 seconds to get 1:32.
  • Optic and I did a marathon EH through the second hipnotic episode, in a time of 8:37, many minutes faster than my single player time.
  • The hip2m1 from that demo just happens to be one second faster than our record, so you can get that by itself, here.
  • Optic and I also did an EH of hip3m3 in 1:19. Only hip3m1/2/4 left! :)
  • Robert and Rickard ran alpha001 in 0:06 on both easy and nightmare.
  • Carl, Johan, Daniel and Fredrik did an easy 100% of badland2 in 2:41, a whole seven seconds faster than the 2-player.

That's right the "surprise" I had waiting for you was a new site, Quake Done Naked! The site is basically like SDA except for the demos you send in are done without the use of any weapons, many thanks to Nolan's patch. The whole goal is to kill all, or as many enemies as possible, in under 10:00 without the use of any weapons. I won't waste any time explaining it here, just visit the page and find out for yourself! Also, many thanks to Kip who came up with this whole idea.

Hey I'm finally adding some more maps, so you can stop bugging me about that now Optic :P

• First we have The Alpha Project. Using an obvious shortcut, Mr Shambler and Scrad did a coop nightmare run of it in 0:08, back when Shambler reviewed it. Ilkka managed to pull of the shortcut by himself in 0:10.
• Next is The Desolate Outpost, which is reviewd on the same page above at TeamShambler. Shambler and Scrad did another coop nightmare run of this level, getting 0:40. Ilkka also did an easy run by himself in 0:38.
• #3 is Stronghold of the Battereds, reviewed here. Mr Shambler did an easy run of this one in 1:01.
• #4 is a doom conversion level, using the Hipnotic progs: Return to Phobos. No demos here...
• And finally, the last new map for now, is Curse of the Pharoah, reviewed here. Evan whipped up a quick easy run in 0:46 just before this update.

I expect lots of table filling.

Justin Fleck and I did a couple cooperative demos:

• Easy 100% of E2M7 in 1:15.
  
• Easy 100% of Networld in 1:23.
  

Nolan and Justin also did a few Hipnotic cooperative demos:

• Easy 100% of H2M4 in 0:58.
  
• Easy 100% of H2M5 in 0:54.
  
• Easy 100% of H2M6 in 1:54.
  

Daniel Hansson and Daniel Andersson (both daniels and two s's in the last name) did an Easy 100% of BadLand2 in 2:48.

And finally, Nolan and I did an Easy 100% of E4M6 in 1:43.

Check back on friday for a new speed running announcement!

Ok, I fixed everything up and updated all the zips again. So if you already downloaded the new v1.7 of the mods, you should get them again.

Well I just encountered a crash in the new SoAstats v1.7 that could affect them all. So I removed them for now, until I fix them in a bit... sorry :P

I have released new versions of all eight varations of QdQstats. The three main new things are that it fixes the old "statue bug", when a monster would very rarely just be a statue that you couldn't kill. It counts monster kills in coop as frags, so you can see who gets more kills, and it fixes problems with coop/impulse 9 and keys/weapons that trigger stuff (ex: if you do impulse 9, you can still run through e1m6 normally). Probably most people only need plain old QdQstats. You can also get the SoA, DoE, BB, zer and RDE versions from the QdQstats page. The other two are alk07, where I updated alk07progs.zip, and jzblue where I just replaced the progs in the map zip.

So, updating isn't really required ... but hey, I recommend it anway! :)

Here are the rest of the Prodigy Special Edition coop demos Nolan and I did.

• Easy 100% of PSE3 in 2:09. (3:48)
  
• Easy 100% of PSE3b in 0:46. (1:11)
  

I also did an Easy run of Mexx9a in 1:21, improving Kimmo's record by 3 seconds.

I've got a huge amount of demos for you. And I'm just going to put them in a big list, with some sorting done...

• Warren Hammond reclaimed the easy run of zer1m6 by improving Marlo's record by five seconds, to get 2:08
• Optic did the following single player demos:
  • Easy run of a2d2 in 0:45, two seconds faster than Thomas.
  • Nightmare run of a2d2 in 0:51, eight seconds faster than Matthias.
  • Nightmare run of a3 in 1:41, 17 seconds faster than Matthias.
  • Nightmare run of Armageddon 2 in 0:31, one second faster than Aleksander Osipov.
  • Easy run of Arcane in 1:20, two seconds faster than Marlo.
  • Nightmare run of bnt2 in 2:15, 15 seconds faster than Marlo.
  • Nightmare run of czg04 in 1:52, 16 seconds faster than my time.
  • Easy 100% of evilpool in 1:30, nine seconds faster than his previous record.
  • Easy 100% of ih1m2 in 1:45, five seconds faster than his previous record.
  • Easy 100% of ih1m4 in 1:48, 41 seconds faster than Esa.
  • Nightmare 100% of ih1m4 in 2:06, 1:51 (!) faster than Esa.
• Daniel Hasson improved Matthias's easy run of badland2 by one second to get 2:39.
• Basil de Vries improved Optic's easy run of climb by three seconds to get 0:30.
• Basil also did climb on nightmare, but Ken ended up improving that to end up with 0:27, a five second improvement over Optic. See the climb page for three intermediate demos.
• Sergi improved Jordi's easy run of phallusy by one second to get 0:30.
• Daniel Magnusson improved his own easy 100% of e3m6 by another two seconds to get 2:13.
• Martin Selinus improved Qurre's nightmare run of e1m6-the long way, by two seconds to get 0:30.
• Martin also improved his easy run marathon through the whole frigen game of Quake to get a time of 15:02, 46 seconds faster than his last one.
• Jozsef Szalontai showed that it is possible to get all the kills on The Bastardry (zombies, you see). He did it on easy in 5:50. (Without the zombies is 1:40). Can anyone do it on nightmare?
• Jozsef also improved Marlo's easy run through the jzblue episode by one second to get 0:47.
• Robert Axelsson improved Will's nightmare run through jzblue by one second, as well, getting a time of 0:51.
• I improved Ken's easy 100% of coagula by 28 seconds to get 1:21. There are three intermediate demos from ken on the coagula page.
• Thomas Bergendorff improved his easy 100% of commctr by 10 seconds to get 1:59.
• He also improved Optic's easy 100% of distrub, by four seconds, to get 1:12.
• The group of Johan/Daniel/Fredrik/Fredrik/Mark/Carl did the first 6p nightmare 100%. And they picked the appropriate level... e1m1, and they got a time of 0:34, 12 seconds faster than the 2 player one.
• Close to the same group, Johan/Daniel/Daniel/Carl/Fredrik/Jonny did a 6player easy 100% of e2m2 in 0:41, three seconds faster than the four player, that 4 of those 6 people did earlier.
• Optic and I did the following coop 100%s: (sp time in parenthesis)
  • Nightmare 100% of e2m7 in 1:55. (2:50)
  • Nightmare 100% of e3m4 in 1:12. (1:31)
  • Easy 100% of hip1m5 in 1:54. (2:35)
  • Easy 100% of hip2m1 in 1:26. (2:18)
  • Easy 100% of hip2m2 in 1:54. (2:57)
  • Easy 100% of hip2m3 in 1:13. (1:42)
• Evan and I did easy 100% coops on Prodigy Special Edition:
  • PSE1 in 1:25. (2:09)
  • PSE2 in 1:22. (2:14)
  • PSE4 in 2:04. (3:18)
  • We did 3 and 3b as well, but I'm not posting them yet because of a possible problem.

I promise new levels will be added this week, unless something terrible happens :)

Just writing to say that I can't do a full demo update until sometime Sunday, but you can find all unposted demos on my ftp, using this link, which should work in all browsers.

My first single player run in a year or so is an Easy run of p_se_4 in 0:37., improving Marlo's run by 10 seconds.

Now I will go to sleep and leave the rest of the demo work-load to Nolan :)

Hey, just a notice that we won't have problems with fileplanet malfunctining anymore, since we put up a new script to generate the links ourselves, and included is a link to the ftp on my computer. Here is an example.

Also, the demostats page now lists the number of free spaces left for 2-player coop demos in the id and hipnotic maps, since cooping is so popular lately. So, as I said, that whole 0 thing didn't last long :) I will also be adding more level as soon as I can.

One more change is that now every player has a player stats page. You can get to them from one of the player comparison pages and clicking on the names.

It's really true!

Hey, you know that page that shows how many free spaces are still in the tables? Well the total number had been decreasing for quite a while... and it now reads a big phat 0. Check it out... oh but it won't last :P

Here's the demos I did to finish it up:

• Nightmare 100% of gatordiv in 4:43.
• NH of village in 6:42.
• NH of placebo in 4:22.
• NH of wishes in 3:14.
• NH of oblivion in 8:19.

Oh no, it's the end of "tablefilling"! Ah, just for now....

Lots more single player demos:

• Jozsef Szalontai did a pak of demos:
  • Easy run of commctr in 0:33, two seconds faster.
  • Easy run of crucible in 0:09. If this isn't unbeatable I'll give up ... uh something.
  • Nightmare run of crucible in 0:09 too.
  • Nightmare run of e4m8 in 0:48, three seconds faster than Ilkka. First id-run improvement in a while, I think.
  • Nightmare run of phallusy in 0:31, two seconds faster than Martin.
• Justin Fleck actually did some single player demos too:
  • Easy 100% of mexx3 in 2:27, 33 seconds faster than Matthias.
  • EH of ih1m2 in 1:50, four seconds faster than Esa.
  • Nightmare run of ih1m2 in 1:22, 28 seconds faster than Esa.
  • Nightmare 100% of ih1m2 in 2:09, 41 seconds faster than Esa.
  • Nightmare 100% of mexx in 3:40, 1:02 faster than Matthias.
  • NH of mexx4 in 4:09, 1:03 faster than Matthias.
  • NH of mexx5 in 4:38, 1:23 faster than Mattias. (not a typo, hehe)
• Richard Skidmore returns with two demos:
  • Nightmare 100% of hayduke in 2:03, 50 seconds faster than Matthias.
  • Easy 100% through the first ep of the Rogue pak in 24:02, 3:04 faster than Tim.
• Evan improved Optic's easy 100% of bbelief3 by five seconds to get 1:35.
• Valeriy Brumistrov is back at improving the end map again... he got 1:57 for the nightmare 100% by skipping the lightning gun.

And more coop-y-ness on e3m5:

• Robert and Rickard improved Optic and I's nightmare run that we had just done by five seconds to get 0:39.
• Optic and I did the nightmare 100% in 1:41.

'Tis a day to remember.... a few years ago there were hundreds of holes in the tables and some doubted they would ever be filled. Now they finally are. I just want to say.... IT'S ABOUT TIME! hehe.

I didn't make links to the maps on this update because I already spent too much time on it... you know where to find them. Oh and I know I forgot at least one demo... it will be on the next (non-rushed) update.

Nolan and I decided fill some empty Beyond Belief spaces.

• Easy 100% of bbelief1 in 1:07.
  
• Easy 100% of bbelief5 in 1:34, cool ogre-grenade jump here :)
  
• Easy 100% of bbelief6 in 1:45.

Expect more cooperative demos soon!

About two years ago Ilkka and I embarked on a rather interesting project involving the axe. Our goal was to run through all of Quake on Easy, killing everyone with nothing more than an axe. Unfortunately, school started right during the middle of the project, however, I am trying to finish off some of the several levels left to complete.

Download the first demo from the project (refilm included) to get the idea of this very strange project. If anyone with a good amount filming experience would like to contribute to the filming portion then please email me! I will decide on if there will be a filmed version only if I can get enough help on filming! I'm stuck on ideas of how to complete E2M4 (buttons on the end) so I can't give a definate release date but expect the final release to be sometime before Christmas :)

To add to the already overwhelming slew of cooperative demos Nolan and I decided to do an Easy 100% of Beyond Belief level 2. After some lag outs we got a solid time of 1:09.

Judging by my location FilePlanet is still down! All is not lost though, Nolan's FTP contains this & other new demos.

Yeah the title is lame I know. Note: fileplanet is unresponsive as I post this, so the demo links could all be broken for all I know... I have ideas to avoid this in the future... For now, you'll have to use my ftp to get the new demos. (This goes straight to the "after june 4th" section and this link will work even in IE...)
Here's all the single player demos:

• As seen on his page, Mr Shambler improved my easy run through mexx10 by nine seconds by inventing/finding a new shortcut, to get 2:18.
• "Nonameyet" improved Stefan's easy 100% of coagula by three seconds to get 1:49. Three guesses as to who this really is.
• Optic improved Matthias's nightmare run through ikspq2 by eight seconds to get 1:41.
• Optic also did a marathon run through Beyond Belief on easy, and got a time of 3:39.
• Stefan filled up the last holes in the "custom episodes" tables by doing the last Nightmare 100%s on PSE. First he did pse3 in 4:40 and then pse4 in 4:04.
• I did a nightmare 100% of armorgod in 4:34.
• Matthias Belz did a nightmare 100% of polygon2 in 4:35, new.
• Will Marsh (remember him?) did a nightmare run through the jzblue episode in a time of 0:52, filling the hole. Oh and he only did it because Ken did it in 0:58.

And now for the newest slew of coop demos:

• Optic and I keep doing nightmare 100%s on id maps. We did e1m8 in 1:06.
• e2m1 in 0:59. This is only seven seconds slower than the EH coop, despite there being more than twice the monsters.
• e2m2 in 1:09, 23 seconds faster than Markus's single player (only NH Markus ever did...)
• Evan joined up with us and we did two 3-player Nightmare 100%s: e3m1 in 0:50 (15 seconds faster than the 2-player) and e4m1 in 0:53 (16 seconds faster then the single player [no 2p]).
• Optic and I also did a nightmare run through e3m5 in 0:44, 18 seconds faster than the single player.
• Simon and Daniel did the first coop on e3m6, an easy 100%, in 1:37.
• Evan and Cameron decided to do some coop too. They did an easy 100% of bbelief3 in 1:10.
• They also did an easy 100% of e4m3 in 1:01, 29 seconds faster then the single player record.
• Johan and Carl did an easy run of commctr in 0:34, one second faster the the single player time.

American's are back in the house, so go run your pasty white asses back to your 'pubs' and sip on some 'lagar' or whatever you guys call beer.

Justin and I did a couple of 100% Nightmare demos.

• e3m2 in 1:05, improving our time by 4 seconds.
  
• e4m2 in 1:21, new to the tables.
  

Nolan and Flecker also did some Nightmare 100%'s.

• e1m3 in 1:33, new to the tables.
  
• e1m5 in 1:00, new to the tables.
  

I have nothing against pub's or pasty skin so don't be offended.

Just in case you've been living under the proverbial rock, you should get QdQwav the newest QdQ nightmare run through Quake. Some of the demos that I revelead the times of but not the demos, back on July 4th, were part of this so they are now available from the tables. Specifically on e1m3, e2m2, e3m1, e4m2, and e4m3.

Here's the long promised demo update...

Daniel Magnusson decided to take over the map mntbase2, as well as doing a few other demos.

• He improved Optic's easy run by one second to get 0:54.
• He improved Optic's easy 100% by nine seconds to get 1:07.
• He improved Matthias Belz's nightmare run by 27 seconds to get 1:07.
• He improved Matthias's nightmare 100% by 24 seconds to get 1:27.
• He improved Optic's nightmare 100% marathon through ep1 by 54 seconds to get 13:57.
• He did a coop with Simon Nordberg, easy 100% of e1m3 in 0:52, a three second improvement over Robert and Alex.

I did tons of table fillers and other improvements:

• Easy 100% of alk07 in 6:27.
• Nightmare run of alk07 in 1:36. Nobody else ever did a demo on this map except me... I guess that's a good way for me to gain records then :)
• Nightmare run of avatar in 5:27.
• Nightmare 100% of avatar in 6:21.
• After I did avatar on nightmare, I figured I could improve the demos on easy, so I did... got 5:29 for the easy run, 50 seconds faster than Esa, and 5:37 for the easy 100%, 53 seconds faster than Marlo.
• Nightmare run of czg04 in 2:08.
• Nightmare 100% of czg04 in 5:38.
• Nightmare run of placebo in 3:12.
• Nightmare run of polygon2 - the long way - in 0:25. This turned out to be not as long as I figured it would... but again I was the only one to ever do it!
• Nightmare run of well in 2:13.
• Marathon nightmare run through the 2nd episode of the hipnotic pak, the last hole in the hipnotic marathon table, in 4:30.

More coops from me and other people:

• I did an easy 100% of hip1m4 with Warren Hammond (Virusss) in 1:07.
• And I did an 100% of hipdm1 with Optic in 0:25.
• I did an 3 player easy run of pb1 with Josh and Warren in 0:23.
• And I did another marathon coop with Optic... ep1 again, this time an easy 100%, in a time of 5:44.

Yea, someone has *finally* improved my nightmare 100% marathon of all of RDE. Stefan did the thing in 18:34 which is an embarassing amount of seconds faster than my demo (more than 700 seconds, urgh).

I really should be updating the RDE tables, I know, but I can't at the moment. Updating the SpeedCon page is neccessary too (I still got some pics that were never posted) - I'll make sure that gets done 'soon'.

Now that you've fainted from seeing the headline, you should know it's not actually out yet. It will be out on Wednesday... and we've planned an IRC party. Check the QdQ page for details.

I should be posting demos tomorrow, but dont forget you can get them from my ftp...

Justin and I did a Nightmare 100% coop of E3M2 in 1:09. Download it, its uhh fantabulous..

Just a reminder that you can find new demos before they're posted to the news by using my ftp, but I've noticed that it doesn't work in IE... what can I say except "IE sucks!" :) The ftp should usually be up all the time, except from approx. 7:00-16:00 CET when I'll be asleep. But it never hurts to try it.

On another note, the problem that Netscape had with .dz files on certain servers wasn't it's fault, and it wasn't my fault... it was the webservers fault. It has been fixed for the gamespy servers, so you shouldn't have that problem anymore.

And now for your regularly scheduled demos.

• Thomas Stubgaard improved Alex's easy 100% of e3m5 by one second to get 1:33.
• Thomas also improved Alex's nightmare 100% of e3m5, but he improved this one by a bit more -- 25 seconds, to get 2:01.
• Martin Selinus is crazy :P He ran through all of Quake on easy in 15:48, 1:17 faster than Daniel's entry just two weeks ago.
• He also improved his nightmare run of phallusy again, this time by one second to get 0:33.
• Since I'm not working on dzip all the time, I found time to make a few demos myself... first I did an easy 100% of hip1m5 in 2:35, 16 seconds faster than Ilkka.
• Then Optic and I took advantage of our college connections and did some coop... first an easy 100% of hip1m3 in 1:02, 41 seconds faster than the single player.
• And then we did a nightmare 100% marathon through the first episode. OK, maybe Optic and I are even more crazy than Martin... After 3 hours we finally got to the end and got a time of 9:39, 5:12 faster than when Optic did it by himself.
• Piguminati and Virusss did another coop; e1m6 - the long way, on easy, in 0:23, two seconds faster than the single player time.
• They also did an easy run of foon in 0:28, five seconds faster than the previous demo.
• Johan and Carl did an easy 100% of carnage in 1:13, 19 seconds faster than the single player time.

Check out the Quake done Quick page for *two* new QdQ releases...

I have set up an ftp server with all of sda's demos on it, on my own computer. Jesse was able to download from it at 70k/s yesterday, but it's hard to say what results other people will have. ftp to 130.49.85.185, username/pass both 'sda'. Or just use this link. The demos are divded into "before june 4th" and "after june 4th" because of the way I have them stored. There's also some of the maps (plan to get all of them there later), as well as demos that I haven't put on the news yet.... It won't be up *all* the time since I do like to turn my computer off when I sleep, but it should be up a lot of the time.

A bit after posting the .dz version of Marlo's big marathon, I figured why stop at one, and since I had time to kill, I took Every single player marathon, made .dz files out of them and then uploaded the resulting 62mb of files :) (the zips were well over 100mb) Perhaps I'll do the multi player marathons too, and the hugest of the single level demos as well but classes start tomorrow so I dont know if I'll be able to or not. So if you haven't got dzip yet... well you'd better :P

Here's some demos for you... it didn't take me nearly as long as normal to upload them because I'm now on a faster connection :)

• Marlo improved Mattias's easy run of zer1m6 by one second to get 2:13.
• Marlo also improved Matthias's easy 100% of zer1m1 by four seconds to get 0:55.
• Esa Lahteenmaki filled the hole for the easy run of avatar by getting a time of 6:19... this is quite a long map you see.
• He also did a nightmare run of ih1m2 in 1:51.
• and the nightmare 100% of ih1m2 in 2:50.
• Thomas Bergendorff improved Marlo's easy run of distrub by one second to get 0:43.
• Jozsef Szalontai improved Optic's easy run of hayduke by two seconds to get 0:28.
• Jozsef also did an easy 100% of mbb7 in 1:20, nine seconds faster than Matthias.
• The nightmare 100% of mbb7 as well, in 1:12.
• A nightmare run of jzblue3 in 3 seconds!, two seconds faster than Robert.
• A nightmare run of The Bastardry in 0:22, one second faster than Optic.
• Nightmare run of The Comm Center in 0:43, 11 seconds faster than David Eva's old demo.
• Nightmare run of hayduke in 0:37, 16 seconds faster than Optic's old demo.
• Daniel Magnusson did two demos, a nightmare 100% of beach in 0:23, two seconds faster than his previous record.
• And he improved Marlo's easy run through the whole game of Quake by one minute and 10 seconds to get a time of 17:05.
• Sergi Cami also did a marathon, an easy run through ep2 in 3:53, two seconds faster than his previous record.
• We got a few coop demos from "Piguminati" and "Virusss"...
  • Easy run of damaul3 in 0:14, five seconds faster than the one by Mr. Shambler and Scrad.
  • Easy run of dwell in 0:39.
  • Easy run of funrun in 0:40.
  • Easy run of The Lost World in 0:39.
  • Easy run of The Underworld in 1:03.
• We got a mad coop submission to, from Daniel Hansson, Carl Tholin, Johan Nilsson, and Jonny Andersson. They did an easy 100% of e2m2 in 0:44, but they only have the demo of the first person available.

Whoops, I forgot that Martin Selinus improved his nightmare run of phallusy by two seconds to get 0:34.

After a few unwanted delays, Stefan and I have finally finished dzip v2.1. It has the usual new stuff: fixes to some rare encoding problems, and loads of new stuff for the gui. If you're like most people, the gui is probably all you want, so you can get just that here. If you need a command prompt version for Windows, Linux or Solaris, or if you want the source code for the whole thing, you can get those here.

For some more pics of dzip, go here.

Just as another example of dzip's power, I uploaded Marlo's famous nightmare 100% through all of Quake in 86:48 as a .dz file. The .zip file of the marathon is 7.52 MB, but the .dz file is only 4.13 MB, and this is lower than dzip's average performace. So if you never got that marathon because of it's size... well you must not have got the Nehahra movie either... but now you can at least get marlo's marathon :P

Oh btw, you can use dzip for any kind of file, not just .dem files; it's compression is very close to a normal .zip, sometimes even slightly better. If you find something that doesn't seem right, or is just a plain obvious bug, please report it to me.

In this update I'm just posting one demo, even though more than it have been sent in... because this demo deserves it's own update!

• Martin Selinus improved Ilkka Kurkela's easy run of e1m6-the long way-by one second to get 0:25.

If you think there's any kind of mistake in this demo you must be on something because there's not! You must check this demo out... and then ask Martin how the hell he got so damn good :P

Well since we seem to be in a image posting mood here at SDA :) ... I'm posting my little teaser pic to show how I've been spending too much of my time lately:

Nehahra owns you.

Here's the demo update that I put off simply because of a certain individual bugging me to do an update...

Four demos from the map Harmsway:

• Martin Selinus improved Janne's easy run through the whole level by seven seconds to get 1:51.
• But a few days later he improved that one by 10 seconds to get a 1:41. :)
• He also improved Optic's nightmare run of the level, using the shortcut, by one second, to get 0:06.
• Esa Lähteenmäki did the long way on nightmare in 2:50.

Valeriy Burmistrov did a few demos:

• Easy 100% of jzblue3 in 0:16, one second faster than his previous demo.
• Easy 100% of beach1 in 0:27, also one second faster than his previous demo. Valeriy says that "it is very hard to save 'just one more second' when the demo is so short."
• He improved his easy 100% coop with Vlad of bbelief7 by one second to get 0:23.
• V&V also improved Fab and I's crappy easy 100% of climb by nine seconds to get 0:36.

Aleksander Osipov recovered some demos he did a while ago:

• Easy 100% of e4m7 in 2:05, four seconds faster than his previous, and pretty damn close to perfect.
• Nightmare run of e4m5-the long way, in 1:03, three seconds faster than Fabian.

R&R Axelsson improved both of Matthias and Stefan's coops on dxm, getting 0:06 on easy and 0:07 on nightmare.

I don't feel like spending too much time on this update so I'm just going to do a quick list of all the new demos:

• Robert Axelsoon improved Matthias's easy run of beach1 by two seconds to get 0:08. Cool trick alert :)
• Valeriy Burmistrov improved my easy 100% of bbelief7 by three seconds to get 0:38. Pretty damn good I'd say, since I thought my old 0:41 was really good...
• Thomas's brother Mads-Peter improved my easy 100% of 4fiffy3 by two seconds to get 2:36.
• Esa did the easy 100% of ih1m4 in 2:29.
• Esa did the easy 100% of phallusy in 1:48.
• Robert improved Ilkka's nightmare run of beach1 by one second to get 0:08.
• Thomas did the nightmare 100% of e3m3 with all the kills in an amazing time of 12:54.
• Valeriy improved Stefan's nightmare 100% of bfinal by four seconds to get 0:44.
• Mads-Peter improved his previous nightmare 100% of 4fiffy3 by nine seconds to get 2:38.
• Esa did the nightmare 100% of ih1m4 in 3:57.
• Valeriy and Vlad improved Marlo and Fab's easy 100% of bbelief7 by four seconds to get 0:24.
• Valeriy and Vlad did an easy 100% of bfinal in 0:32.
• Valeriy and Vlad did the nightmare 100% of bfinal in 0:35.
• Robert, Alex and Rickard did an easy run of beach in 0:05.
• Robert and Alex improved Stefan and Matthias's easy run of coagula by one second to get 0:08.

The mkt.pl script for displaying demos should now be working again. We'll try and make sure it stays that way! :)